How to Construct a Train From Cardboard Boxes

Written by christina sloane

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You can make your own toy train out of boxes and other materials. (train image by cherie from Fotolia.com)

If you and your kids have extra shoe boxes, mini cereal boxes, juice boxes or other cardboard containers lying around, you can work together to recycle them into a pull-along train toy. Depending on the extra materials you have lying around the house, you can decorate each train car as elaborately as you like.

Skill level:

Easy

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Things you need

Three or four boxes, all similar in size

String or yarn

Construction paper or self-adhesive shelf liner paper

Poster paints, crayons or markers

Paintbrushes

Glue

Sharpened pencil

Scissors

Empty thread spools

Buttons

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Instructions

1

Paint each box or cover the boxes with construction paper or self-adhesive shelf liner paper. Add details by using paint, markers or crayons, or by cutting shapes out of construction paper and gluing them on.

2

Wait for your paint to dry, then glue on additional objects to personalise each train car. For example, you can glue an empty thread spool or marker cap to the top of the first car to create a smokestack.